Chapter 1: A Fateful Encounter
BlueTiger321: Okay, so now it's on to the first chapter! Before I begin, I'd like to comment about JusSonic doing his own fanmake of the movie. Man, you are AWESOME! And I absolutely mean that, because he's a fantastic writer! Also, the lyrics for the song used in this chapter are credit to LyricsFreak, but I should point out that this is how the song was sung in the movie so the lyrics aren't exactly as the song is supposed to be really sung. So, anyway, enjoy!
The year is now 2001 A.D. in New York City, and a ten year old boy had just woken up to the sound of his Buzz Lightyear alarm clock. The current time was seven a.m. The continuous buzzing from the clock was finally shut off when the boy hit the switch.
The boy revealed himself to have blue eyes and black hair spiked forward, and his name was Danny Fenton. Danny turned his head to see a small green dog lying on the bed a few inches away from him. The boy greeted his dog a good morning by saying, "Hey Cujo, how did you get up here?"
A call from Danny's mother named Maddie could be heard from downstairs. "Danny," she said. "Field trip today. Don't forget to wear clean underwear."
Cujo groaned in response and then began to playfully chew on Danny's nose. The boy gave a slight smirk to his dog and said, "She means me, not you."
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New York City spanned across the landscape with all its iconic landmarks and buildings dotting the scenery. To everyone it would be just like any other day. For Danny, he knew this was his chance to finally get the attention of a girl he liked, and he figured it wouldn't be better than to do it on his birthday.
As Danny went with his class to the spot for the field trip, he suddenly had the song The Middle by Jimmy Eat World going through his head.
Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on
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All the kids of Danny's class were laughing and enjoying themselves on the bus ride to the field trip, but Danny was busy with a plan. Dressed in his white T-shirt with red trim and a red oval in the centre, blue jeans and red and white tennis shoes, he was drawing a picture on the bus window with a black marker. He looked so intent on his creation like an artist creating a masterpiece.
Just try your best, try everything you can
You know you're doing better on your own, so don't buy in
From the other side of the bus, it could be seen that Danny was drawing a picture of King Kong battling airplanes that were opening fire on him. What was strange about it was there was a huge gap in between Kong's body.
Sam Vincent as Aerrow and Dark Ace
Meanwhile, a nine year old Asian girl was sitting elsewhere on the bus with her friends and laughing at what one of them just told her. The girl was adorable with her black hair that had a single white strand on the left side and her brown eyes and freckles. She was clothed in a green T-shirt that had a red stripe going down the centre, blue jeans and brown shoes. On her right wrist was a brown bracelet that had a purple gem in the middle. This girl was named Juniper Lee, but she was most often referred to as June.
Live right now
You're just being yourself
A husky boy named Bobby Hill (King of the Hill) was looking at what Danny was drawing on the window and gave him a dubious look. "You're not supposed to be doing that, Danny," he warned.
Danny ignored the warning from his classmate. Instead he smiled, put down his marker and said, "Now!"
It doesn't matter if it's good enough
For someone else
The boy stepped back and saw his drawing was around the Empire State Building. From a distance it actually looked like King Kong was climbing the famous skyscraper and attacking airplanes.
Suddenly, June said, "Danny." The boy turned around with an eager face, hoping to hear the correct response. "That's cool."
Danny smiled at what the girl said to him; his plan had worked. Bobby, meanwhile, gave the boy a sarcastic thumb up for his crazy scheme.
It just takes some time
Little girl you're in the middle of the ride
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right, all right
THE SKY KNIGHT'S APPRENTICE
David Kaufman as Danny Fenton
The class had finally arrived to the spot. All the children were seated on a step in front of their teacher named Mrs. Krabappel as she gave her students a lecture. She said, "...which means that before Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty were built..." She then pointed to the famous statue sitting out by the ocean.
Danny held a small, folded piece of paper in his hands while his teacher was still talking. He then handed it to the classmate next to him and hoped it would head for the one meant to read it. "Pass it to June," he whispered.
Hey, don't write yourself off yet
The other kids did as they were asked and passed the note down to the next one, some of them whispering, "Pass it on" or "Pass it to June."
Lara Jill Miller as Juniper "June" Lee
It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on
The note finally reached June. From what she gathered from all the whispering she heard, she figured it was meant for her. She carefully unfolded the paper and looked to see the writing on it. Written in black ink were the words Check One: I would like to be DANNY'S: friend or girlfriend. An empty checkbox was next to "friend" and "girlfriend."
Just do your best (just do your best)
Do everything you can (do everything you can)
Chiara Zanni as Piper
June leaned out from her fellow classmates with a quizzical look. There was Danny also leaning out, and he gave the girl a smile. Deep down inside, he was hoping she would pick the right choice because he always had these feelings for her.
Rickey D'Shon Collins as Tucker Foley
And don't you worry what their bitter hearts (bitter hearts)
Are gonna say
Bobby leaned out ahead of Danny to see what she was going to do, but June just sat there and gave a smile back. In her own mind, she already made her decision of what she was going to check off, and she hoped Danny would feel the same way about her. June then took up her pen and checked off the box next to her choice.
Danny Cooksey as Jack Spicer
It just takes some time
Little girl you're in the middle of the ride
Mrs. Krabappel was just about finished with her lecture when she said, "Let's go. Get on the ferry. Get your bags. Stay close. Here we go."
Everything, everything will be just fine
Everything, everything will be all right
Lenore Zann as Master Cyclonis
June folded up the note and left it on the ledge of the staircase just as she and all the other classmates walked off to continue their field trip. Danny looked expectantly at the note, so he waited until everyone else walked away and then he walked over to grab it. Before he could, however, a gust of wind blew past him and carried away the note.
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Danny's face was set into dismay when he saw the note slip from his grasp. He had to go after it; he just had to see June's decision. The boy went up the steps to grab the note, but then a cyclist came out of nowhere and unknowingly picked up the paper with his bike's rear tire.
"Hey, stop!" cried Danny. But the cyclist was too far ahead to hear it.
The boy ran after the man, desperately wanting to get the note back. Danny was so focused that he did his best to get out of the way of people as he came into an intersection. Drivers honked the horns of their cars as they quickly halted to avoid hitting the boy.
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The cyclist eventually stopped and noticed the paper stuck to his bike's tire, so he grabbed it and tossed it on the ground thinking it was scrap. The note was eventually picked up mistakenly by a dog being walked by a woman. The pair walked away while Danny still chased after the note.
Danny went in between two people while saying, "Excuse me." He then saw the woman grabbing the note off her dog's paw. Danny went wide eyed and shouted. "No! No, lady, don't!"
It was effortless as the woman was wearing headphones and couldn't hear the boy's shouts. She instead threw away the note nonchalantly, causing Danny to once again go after it.
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The boy ran down an alleyway after the note was caught in another gust of wind. No matter what, he told himself, he knew this would be worth it just to see June's answer to his question, even if it meant getting scolded from his teacher for breaking away from the class. Danny stopped when he saw a small shop sitting on the street, and outside was a black 1935 Rolls Royce Phantom parked on the side. The shop was inside a green three-story house and had the words Arcana Cabana in gold lettering above the door. Danny didn't know why, but he somehow got the feeling that this was a place he should never enter.
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Everything changed in an instant when Danny saw his note was flapping on the edge of the building's mail slot. He rushed up the steps to grab it with an outstretched hand, but the note was blown into the building by the wind. Danny did not want to do this but he saw no other option – going into the building.
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He looked inside the window and saw no one was there, and then he slowly opened the door and walked into the building.
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When Danny walked into the store, he saw that it was just like any other antique shop. There was an assortment of different objects lying around: stuffed animals, glass ornaments, vases, the skulls of humans and animals, and other things. Some of the antiques in the store were so spine-chilling that Danny just wanted to conclude his business and get out as quickly as possible. But then Danny's curiosity got the better of him as he saw an old oil lamp sitting by itself on a desk.
"No way," he said, and proceeded to rub the lamp to see if a genie would come out. Nothing happened. "Aw, this is nothing like in Aladdin. Why couldn't Genie pop out and do some cool magical stuff?"
Danny then picked up the lamp to get a closer look but then made a slight yelp as the lamp had been used to weigh down the brass bottle and cups on the plate. Removing the lamp had caused the objects to slide off the table. This made the boy really scared as he walked backwards and bumped into a small table, knocking over the skull lying on top of it. Danny yelped once again as it left him disoriented and he was about to knock over a large urn. The boy turned around in surprise when he regained his bearings and saw that the urn wasn't broken; it was being held up by a man who had arrived in time to prevent any further damage. Danny looked at the man's red hair and green eyes, not knowing this was the sorcerer Aerrow.
The man decided to tell the boy the story behind this urn. He coolly looked at Danny and said, "The second emperor of the Han dynasty locked his least-favourite wife in this urn for ten years to the day. They say you open it up, the same thing will happen to you."
Danny was somewhat frightened by the story but he knew it couldn't be real. "I'm sorry," he said. "I'm looking for this note. Have you seen it? It kind of just blew into your store."
"A note?" said Aerrow after repositioning the urn.
"It blew into your store. It was just a..."
"Coincidence." Aerrow knew what this meant, so he finished the sentence for the boy.
"Yeah, it was just a coincidence."
Aerrow turned to face Danny. To him he knew this was a sign about his quest, and so he was going to see if this boy was the one. He walked past the boy and said, "I have something I'd like to show you, Danny."
Danny was a bit shocked by the man's response. "How'd you know my name was Danny?" he asked.
"'Cause I can read minds!" Aerrow said sternly. Danny was taken aback by it and thought it was real. The man then said, "It's on your backpack."
Danny then remembered that he was carrying his backpack and looked around for the spot for his name to see if this man was telling the truth. He ended up going around in circles like a dog chasing its own tail.
Aerrow walked off to a desk and said, "Come over here."
The boy stopped what he was doing and slowly approached the stranger. He walked up just as Aerrow went behind a counter and placed a black box on its surface. The box was opened by the shop owner to reveal a small figurine of a silver dragon. Danny was surprised to see something like that being contained in a box, but was more confused by why this man would show it to him. Aerrow then took out the dragon and let it rest in him palm.
"This is very special," said the man, "and if it likes you, you can keep it."
Danny was tempted to take up that offer, but then he realized that there were more important matters. "I better not," he said. "My teacher said I couldn't be gone for long. She knows I'm here."
"You're a bad liar, Danny," replied Aerrow, giving the boy a smirk. "That's good."
Danny didn't know how this man knew he was lying, and all that mattered to him was finding the note and getting out of here. He headed for the exit, but Aerrow already beat him to it. Without moving an inch, the sorcerer forced the doors closed with a spell.
"Oh, boy," Danny said worriedly. He then walked back to the man, thinking there was no harm in going along with this game and took the dragon figurine from his hand.
Aerrow watched expectantly for something to happen and was amazed at the sight. The dragon in Danny's hand came to life and shook its body. The boy had a stunned face as he saw the dragon crawled over his hand, rested on his index finger and wrapped its tail around the appendage. The dragon then spanned the wings on its back to reveal a round emerald. Danny couldn't believe what just happened and was left speechless while he inspected the newly-formed ring on his hand.
The man then breathed a sigh of relief as his quest was now over. He finally found the Prime Merlinean and now would be the time to instruct this boy in the sacred art.
"No way," said Danny, thinking this was an unbelievable moment.
Aerrow walked around the counter and said, "I have been searching a very long time." He knelt down until his eyes were level with the boy. "Magically, here you are. That ring on your finger means something, Danny. It means you're going to be a very important sorcerer one day. And your first lesson begins right now with your very own Encantus." The sorcerer brought up his hand to show a similar ring on his finger, except it had a round sapphire in the middle. "Do not move; do not touch anything."
With his goal set, Aerrow walked down a spiral staircase into the basement of his store. Once there he then walked over to the side of the staircase's brick wall and moved a box. Concentrating hard, he cast a spell over the wall by moving his hands, causing the dust over the bricks to be swept away.
Danny, meanwhile, still couldn't believe everything that happened in the last few minutes. All he wanted was to get the note and now a strange man was giving him something he never expected. He looked at the ring on his finger, awing at its magnificence. What he didn't know was that every time he moved the ring there was a thudding noise coming from behind a wall.
The boy eventually heard the noise and moved his hand. The result made a pile of boxes topple over and the wall began to pulse. Danny moved his hands a few more times, still hearing the same thud coming from the wall. Eventually, the wooden boards began to fracture from the force. Danny's curiosity got him again and compelled him to keep doing whatever it was he was doing. With a mighty swing of his hand, Danny made the wall burst open and let out something resting behind it. The object rolled to his feet, and he saw it was a nesting doll with an image of a man painted on one of its sides.
Aerrow was still in the basement, pushing the bricks away like they were a door. Inside was an assortment of cobwebs along with a large book. He grabbed the book, unaware of what his new apprentice was doing.
Danny picked up the nesting doll, trying to figure out why it came out all of a sudden. He looked at the image on its side and thought it was kind of scary at how it looked so lifelike. All of a sudden, the doll rippled like water and its midsection was emitting a strange glow. Danny was so shocked that he dropped the doll to the floor and let it open.
What Danny saw next made him feel like his heart skipped a beat. From out of the doll crawled thousands of cockroaches. The insects all focused on each other and began to form up in front of the boy.
"No way," said Danny.
The roaches continued to pile on each other, making their mass get bigger and bigger. The mass was so large that it was appearing to be the size of a person. Just then, the insects changed shape and a human foot walked out from them. Eventually, all the insects changed to show the same person that was painted on the doll taken form. Danny was awestruck to see the last of the roaches crawl into the man's mouth, and there standing in front of him was Dark Ace.
The evil sorcerer took in a deep breath, finally glad to be free from the Grimhold. He then looked directly at Danny to get some answers. "When am I?" he asked.
Danny whimpered in front of the man, completely terrified at what he witnessed. "New York City," he replied.
Dark Ace was annoyed by the response. "Not where," he said. "The year." He then cast an angry glance at Danny. "You are wasting my time." Bringing up his cane, he made the red crystal on its end glow.
Suddenly, a blast of energy caught Dark Ace before he could do anything to the boy. He shouted as the blast sent him to the glass ceiling where he was suspended; a few shards of glass ending up breaking and landed on the floor.
Danny quickly looked to see Aerrow with his right hand raised to intercept Dark Ace while carrying the book in his other hand. Seeing Dark Ace, Aerrow knew this was bad since Danny still hadn't learned anything yet, so now he would have to double his efforts to train his apprentice.
"What happened to 'don't touch anything'?" Aerrow scolded Danny.
"That's not very sporting of you, Aerrow," said Dark Ace.
"Be quiet." Aerrow turned back to Danny. "It's not you. He's been like this for a thousand years. I'll explain later." As Aerrow was talking, Dark Ace reached for his cane next to him and struggled over Aerrow's spell. "I need the Grimhold. Where's that doll?"
Danny eagerly pointed to the doll by his feet. Before Aerrow could reach for it, Dark Ace sent out a blast that knocked Aerrow into a wall and destroying some of the antiques. With the spell no longer in effect, Dark Ace fell from the ceiling and crashed onto a table. Danny quickly backed away in time to avoid getting hit.
The two sorcerers recovered from their falls, but Dark Ace attacked first. He swung his cane and made a cabinet collide into Aerrow, and then he reached down for the Grimhold. The cabinet then splintered into pieces as Aerrow released himself. He then made a beeline for his enemy and tackled into him, sending them both to the floor. Danny, meanwhile, tried to hide away so as not to get hurt. The boy watched as Dark Ace swung his cane down at Aerrow who then caught it with his hands and pushed back with all his might. In the process, the Grimhold got pushed over to Danny. The two men leaned over the counter and made glass shatter. Danny had to bring up his arms to protect himself from the stray shards.
Dark Ace then made the crystal on his cane glow. Aerrow brought it away from his face just as it released a pulse of red energy and hit a banister on the second floor, setting it ablaze. Now the two sorcerers were exchanging blows with their fists to see if they had the strength and stamina to defeat the other.
Danny was shaking from the battle that ensued. He picked up the Grimhold and looked at the next painting, which was of an Asian man.
Aerrow and Dark Ace still continued their fight until Dark Ace swung his staff into Aerrow's back, making him cry in pain. The two sorcerers were locked on each other. Soon, the crystal on Dark Ace's cane and the ring on Aerrow's finger both started to glow. They then released their magical blasts that sent both of them away from each other.
Dark Ace was already up and used his cane to make a rapier float in midair, making its blade shimmer in the light. "I'll have that doll!" he said.
The sword was shot through the air. Aerrow barely dodged the assault and then saw the blade spinning. Thinking fast, the sorcerer pulled off the horn from a unicorn's skull and deflected each blow from Dark Ace who was using his cane like a real sword. Each motion from Dark Ace mimicked the action on the rapier. Aerrow then ducked and blocked each slash until Dark Ace knocked away the horn. Aerrow was left defenceless as he was lying on the stairs in front of his enemy. Dark Ace then thrust his cane outward and made the sword do the same. Aerrow used his ingenuity again to grab a mask hanging from the wall and blocked the sword with it as the blade was stuck in an eye slit, just barely missing his face and made him sigh in relief.
Aerrow lifted the mask and forced Dark Ace's cane to move along with the rapier. The evil sorcerer was then knocked on the head by his cane and fell under his own weight. As he went down, he knocked over the urn standing next to him. The vibrations caused a jar near Danny to fall down and shatter, sending water onto the crotch area of his jeans. The boy yelped and stood up with the Grimhold still in his possession.
Aerrow then brought his hands together to create a spell. Blue lightning formed from his fingertips until they formed into a ball. Dark Ace stood up after he was knocked down just as Aerrow was finished with his spell. The ball of lightning then shot out from his hands. Dark Ace had barely dodged in time as the ball crashed into the wall and created flames on the spot.
Now it was Dark Ace's turn. He extended his hand and made a part of the flame form around his fingertips where he shot them outward towards Aerrow. The sorcerer dodged the attack, but his enemy still had the flames burning and continued his assault, setting everything he hit ablaze.
The fight was now getting too intense for Danny, so he crawled past Dark Ace and headed for the door.
Dark Ace smiled as he watched the flames burn, hoping that Aerrow was caught in them. Danny looked to see the flames rising and engulfing the store, but he was paralyzed with fear when he saw Dark Ace turn to him and noticed that he had the Grimhold.
Holding up a burning finger, Dark Ace said, "I want that doll."
The boy could do nothing but gasp and expect the worst. Then, Aerrow leapt from out of the flames and tackled Dark Ace to the floor. Danny tried to crawl away from them, but the Cyclonian grabbed Danny's leg and pulled him back. No one even noticed that the lid of the urn was now removed. Dark Ace continued to pull Danny closer to him as the flames kept burning. The man eventually opened Danny's backpack and made some papers get sucked into the urn.
"Leave, Danny! Leave now!" shouted Aerrow. He had to protect this boy no matter what.
Aerrow grabbed Dark Ace's arm and pulled it towards the urn. As soon as their hands made contact with the object, their bodies then turned to ash as they were now being sucked inside. The urn closed as soon as the sorcerers were trapped within it, and Danny screamed as he stood up and ran for the exit still carrying the Grimhold.
Danny ran out into the street, horrified after what he experienced. He looked down and saw the doll in his arms. In an act of terror, he threw it away without watching where it landed. His head was now being filled with a scolding voice he recognized.
"Daniel Fenton!" shouted Mrs. Krabappel. "Don't ever leave your—"
"There's these crazy wizard guys in there! They're made of roaches!" Danny said as he pointed to the store. He didn't know how his teacher and classmates found him, but right now it wasn't important.
Mrs. Krabappel rolled her eyes at Danny's excuse and headed for the shop. "No! Don't go in there!" Danny shouted. "The store's on fire! Don't go in! Those guys are—" The teacher opened the door and Danny looked inside. To his disbelief, he saw the store was just like it was when he first entered like nothing had ever happened. What they didn't know was that Aerrow cast a spell over his store to prevent humans from seeing the existence of magic should the need arise. Danny finished his plea by saying, "—crazy."
The boy then looked at the urn where the two men were sucked inside. He was starting to wonder if it really did happen.
"You really shouldn't tell stories," said Mrs. Krabappel, not believing her student's testimony. "Let's go."
As soon as they both got outside the store, a kid named Dash Baxter looked at Danny and shouted, "Ew! He peed his pants!" All the other kids then began to laugh at Danny.
Danny looked down at his pants and remembered how it happened. "A jar broke," he replied. "It's just water! There was a fire!"
The kids continued to laugh and thought he was crazy. Now they would brand him as a complete loser. June just looked up at Danny, not laughing but giving him a displeased look.
"Yeah, Fenton had a leak," said a boy named Kwan.
"He's such a geek," said Dash.
Danny looked down in shame. Not only did he endure a traumatic experience, but now his class thought he was a liar and a coward, and he thought the girl he really liked would hate him forever. To him, it had to be the worst day of his life.
Back inside the store, the urn sat neatly by itself while holding its dark secrets from the rest of the world. The image painted on its side then had two new additions. There depicted in a furious battle were Aerrow and Dark Ace, and they would remain in the urn until the time came for them to be freed.
BlueTiger321: Poor Danny!
Danny: Great! Now my life is ruined!
Aerrow: Your life is ruined? I'm stuck in an urn for the next ten years with a nutbag!
Dark Ace: Hey! I'm not too thrilled about this, either!
BlueTiger321: Well folks, in the next chapter, Danny will be reunited with his master and we'll get to see how these events have changed him. So, until next time...
Aerrow: Read and review!
